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English Language Arts and Literacy | Grade : 8

Strand - Writing

Cluster - Production and Distribution of Writing

[W.8.5] - Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed.

Resources:


  • Audience
    Broadly, the intended readers, listeners, or viewers of a text in any medium or format; in theatre, attendees at the performance of a drama, reading, or speech.
  • Editing
    Component of writing and preparing presentations concerned chiefly with improving clarity, organization, conciseness, and appropriateness of expression relative to task, purpose, and audience; often involves replacing or deleting words, phrases, and sentences that are awkward or confusing and correcting errors in spelling, usage, mechanics, and grammar. See Revising, Rewriting
  • Grade 8 Annotated Literary Interpretation Essay
  • Grade 8 Unmarked Literary Interpretation Essay
  • Purpose
    See Text Types and Purposes.
  • Revising
    Component of writing and preparing presentations concerned chiefly with reworking a text in light of task, purpose, and audience considerations. Compared to editing, revising is a larger-scale activity often associated with the overall substance and structure of a text. See Rewriting.
  • Rewriting
    Component of writing and preparing presentations that involves largely or wholly replacing a previous, unsatisfactory effort with a new effort on the same or a similar topic or theme but better aligned to task, purpose, and audience. Compared to revising, rewriting is a larger-scale activity more akin to replacement than to enhancement.

Predecessor Standards:

  • W.7.5
    Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on how well purpose and audience have been addressed.

Successor Standards:

  • W.9-10.5
    Develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing, rewriting, or trying a new approach, focusing on addressing what is most significant for a specific purpose and audience.

Same Level Standards:

  • L.8.6
    Acquire and use accurately grade-appropriate general academic and domain-specific words and phrases; independently research words and gather vocabulary knowledge. (See grade 8 Reading Literature Standard 4 and Reading Informational Text Standard 4 on applying knowledge of vocabulary to reading; see grade 1 Writing Standard 5 and Speaking and Listening Standard 4 on strengthening writing and presentations by applying knowledge of vocabulary.)